främmande

The current form ending in -ande (normally indicating a present participle) was used already in Old Swedish, but the more original form främmad lives on in spoken dialects in Götaland (including Närke) and is sometimes used in written poetry. It is the same as Norwegian fremmed and German fremd and traces back to Old Saxon fremithi and Old High German framadi, fremidi, meaning "removed from". This in turn is derived from fram, with roots in the indo-European pro-, also related to English preposition from. ("Främmad", SAOB)